Microsoft not paying their Indie devs???

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DonFerrari said:
Ms makes 8B a quarter don't pay devs for over 2 months due date (that is already some time latter than when they collected customer money) and there are still people supporting ms on this? What would they say if their employer withhold their payment for so long and to boot showed how weathly they live they would like?

Some trades people friends of mine (builders, carpet layers etc) say the rich folks are always the slowest payers, and the ones who niggle most over the bill.

Similarly my artist friend, who sells his painting for $50K or more through a New York Art dealer, said it's the richest buyers who are the meanest price hagglers and the slowest to pay. You get a millionnnaire buying a painting they will normally pay the asking price and in reasonable time. But a billionnaire will demand a price discount, because they are who they are and everyone must dance to their tune. Meanwhile once you take the dealer's commission off and the other costs of producing the work and the time it takes, even though 1 painting for 50K sounds a lot his effecitve hourly rate isn't much more than minimum wage. So a billionnaire haggling to knock $5K of the price of a painting really hurts the bank balance, even though for him (usually a him) it's chump change.